Pre-Purchase Survey Preveza Steel Ketch

Todays Inspection and Ultrasound Survey was on this Carena 40ft long keel, centre cockpit ketch, designed by H.Lemstra in Amsterdam and built in 1990. She would make a fast, safe and comfortable passage-maker and live aboard. 

Sand blasting time I think!

Thinking about buying a Yacht in Greece. 

MARINE SURVEYORS AND APPRAISERS FOR BOATS AND YACHTS

Pre Purchase Surveys, Valuation Surveys and Damage Surveys for Motor and Sailing Vessels up to 24 Metres Length over all.

Todays assignment was this Pre-Purchase Survey and Valuation on this 385 Broadblue Catamaran in Preveza in the Ionian Islands.

Just a heads up for BLOG readers. I am presently in Preveza for the whole of October 2021. If you have your eye on a Yacht here or Lefkada, Nidri please drop me an email. I maybe able to help you. steventruss1@aol.com

This was Broadblues most popular model for long distance cruising and combines ease of handling with robust construction, modern hull form, quality craftsmanship and elegant joinery. She is designed for single or short-hand sailing and achieves this by combining a smaller mainsail and larger headsails with all lines led aft to the cockpit.  All sail handling can be done without needing to venture away from the cockpit. 

The Broadblue 385 is built to the level of European Recreational Craft Directive: Category A (Ocean) and is built using the good quality materials. She is virtually unsinkable due to her watertight bulkheads and buoyancy compartments fore and aft. The keels are integrally moulded and sealed off from the hulls forming a double bottom. 

2012 model. This year was the most successful of the range and incorporates much of the Prout design but with modern materials

 

Hillyard 20 ton Yacht Survey for Pre-Purchase and Valuation.

Just a 'heads up' for my BLOG readers. I will be in Preveza from the 1st of October until the 1st of November 2021. This months inspections include: Bavaria 40, Broadblue Catamaran, Glaros Wooden Gulet, Carena 40 steel Ketch, Jeanneau 50DS. Blogs on each inspection to follow with more to be booked.

Todays Inspection was on this Classic Hillyard 20 Tonner on the Island of Samos in Greece. The exact number of these yachts built by Hillyard's is not known. It could have been as many as 800 and there are records of around 600 with tonnages between 2.5 and 29. The yachts quality of sea kindliness is legendary. I have actually owned a 2.5 tonner and also a 20 tonner over the years. The smaller yacht I left in pieces in a boatyard in Kent, UK before heading off to Newzealand. I often wonder what happened to her!  

David Hillyard established his reputation as a builder of pinnaces and other small wooden vessels for the Admiralty in the First World War. In the very early 1920's he commenced building sailing yachts at the yard in Littlehampton for private ownership. One of the earliest, Twinkler 4 tons 1922, is still being sailed by owners Ted and Diana Evans out of Woodbridge on the River Deben, Suffolk.

This one was planked in mahogany and Iroko all copper fastened to sawn oak frames with steamed intermediate oak timbers. Oak backbone and grown oak floors. External iron ballast keel with Plywood decks overlaid with cascover sheathing.

Rigging Survey also included! 

Thinking about buying a wooden yacht in Greece? Drop me a message to steventruss1:aol.com

Yacht Surveyors and Consultants operating in Greece, Lefkada, Preveza

 Just a 'heads up' for readers. I will be in Preveza for the whole month of October 2021 carrying out a number of inspections, so please email me if your looking at Yachts in the Ionian islands, Lefkada etc. 

UK Marine Surveyor and Consultant operating in Greece

Another trip to Lipsi this week before preparing for our month in Preveza. We already have a Broadblue Catamaran booked and a 24m wooden Gulet in Lefkada. Plenty of spaces left so if you have your eye on a Yacht in the Ionian islands, Preveza, Lefkada or Nidri drop me a message today at steventruss1@aol.com

Lipsi is a small  group of islets at the northern part of the Dodecanese near to Patmos island and Leros. 

If you travel from Rhodes or Kos you can use on daily basis the Catamaran Dodekanissos. Lipsi does not have daily connections with ferries from Athens Greece so you can get there either from Patmos or Leros. During the summer there is once a week connection with the Cyclades island of Mykonos with the ferry boat Milena from Leros.

Has to be done!